Posts Tagged ‘waves’
What do pendulums and elastic film share?
U. CHICAGO (US) — A coupled line of swinging pendulums has nothing apparently in common with an elastic film that buckles and folds under compression while floating on a liquid, but scientists have discovered a connection between the two. Continue…
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Earth & Environment - Nov 16, 2009 17:35 - 0 Comments
Predicting when rogue waves will strike
TULANE (US)—Physicist Lev Kaplan is hoping to calculate the probability of where and when rogue ocean waves will form. A probability warning for a rogue wave would be similar to the “cones of probability” used in tornado and hurricane forecasting. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 19, 2009 11:48 - 0 Comments
Catching gravity waves from the big bang
QUIET team members display circuitry and components developed for the detection of gravity waves: physics graduate students Immanuel Buder and Alison Brizius (front row); Colin Bischoff, physics graduate student; David Moore, undergraduate in physics; Akito Kusaka, postdoctoral fellow in the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics; and Bruce Winstein, the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor in Physics (back row, l-r). (Credit:Lloyd DeGrane)
Science & Technology - Mar 6, 2009 18:39 - 2 Comments
Fine print so small it’s subatomic
STANFORD (US)—How tiny is the world’s smallest writing? The letters in the words written by Standford University researchers are assembled from subatomic-sized bits as small as 0.3 nanometers—or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter.
